Asteroid with a diameter of 20 meters will pass by the Earth on Sunday – Radio Echo of Moscow

08:09 , 05 September 2014

However, as they note, it does not pose a threat to our planet. At the moment of encounter with the Earth the asteroid will be at a distance of up to 40 thousand kilometers above the planet’s surface. This will happen over New Zealand in about 22 hours 18 minutes Moscow time. Object approach to communications and weather satellites at a distance of four thousand kilometers. About this site reports NASA. According to experts, is the proximity of the asteroid will provide a unique opportunity to explore the space object. When the sky is clear it will be able to see everyone with a small telescope. Astronomers first discovered the asteroid on the night of August 31 in the course of monitoring the sky at the observatory in Arizona. The next night, the object was observed using a telescope in Hawaii. In the future, scientists intend to closely monitor the flight path of a celestial body. According to them, after some time, the asteroid passes by the planet again close enough, but when exactly this happens is not yet known. Experts note that the asteroids of this type often approach the Earth, but, as a rule, do no harm.